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    "id": 41475,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are departments today - and the honourable Mover has mentioned - in Government where people can transact official business in mother tongue; from the Managing Director all the way to the sweeper, without any problem. They discuss official business matters in their own mother tongue. This is dangerous and one of the reasons why this country lost after the last general election. This is one of the underlying critical reasons why, as Parliament, we need to confront this menace. We are going to bring this report before Parliament. The report does not target any one ethnic group. It is a cancer that we have and we need to confront it. There is a law, today as we speak, which bars any Government department to have more than a third of its composition from one ethnic group. But we have violated that law. More than ten Government Ministries have violated the law. In fact, it is worse when you go to parastatals; where the chief executive is the “chief executive” of his tribe and clan, instead of being the chief executive of the nation. We end up having people from one ethnic group occupying all the positions. We have seen Ministers appointing relatives as chief executive officers. They say: “This is our time to eat.” Therefore, the only time to eat is to appoint my next of kin to become the CEO of a certain parastatal where there is money. That is a very dangerous trend and we must confront it. The problem of language needs affirmative action in terms of national unity."
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